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Tuomas Holopainen

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Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976) is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician (but mainly keyboardist) and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. [1]

91 relations: After Forever, Anette Olzon, Angels Fall First, Auri (band), Backing vocalist, Bass guitar, Century Child, Charon (band), Clarinet, Conscription in Finland, Dark Passion Play, Darkwoods My Betrothed, Decades: World Tour, Don Rosa, Dragonlance, Drum kit, Elina Siirala, Embraze, Emppu Vuorinen, End of an Era (album), Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album), Epica (band), Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Fallen (For My Pain album), Finnish Army, For My Pain..., Gothic metal, Guitar, Guns N' Roses, Hartwall Arena, Heavy metal music, Imaginaerum, Imaginaerum (film), Indica (Finnish band), J. R. R. Tolkien, Jazz, Johanna Kurkela, Jukka Nevalainen, Kari Rueslåtten, Kerrang!, Keyboard instrument, Killing Romance, Kitee, Kylähullut, Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), Marco Hietala, Metal Hammer, Metallica, MTV, Multi-instrumentalist, ..., Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge, Music school, Nattvindens Gråt, Neil Gaiman, Nemo (song), Nightwish, Oceanborn, Once (Nightwish album), Orkidea, Over the Hills and Far Away (album), Percussion instrument, Piano, Power metal, Progressive folk, Record producer, Sander Gommans, Saxophone, Sethianism, Simone Simons, Sonata Arctica, Songwriter, Stephen King, Supergroup (music), Swedes, Symphonic metal, Symphony, Synthesizer, Tarja Turunen, Tenor saxophone, The Carpenter (Nightwish song), The Matriarch (film), The Walt Disney Company, Timo Rautiainen, Tony Kakko, Troy Donockley, Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, Vegetarianism, Visions of Atlantis, While Your Lips Are Still Red, Wish I Had an Angel, Wishmaster (album). Expand index (41 more) »

After Forever

After Forever was a Dutch symphonic metal band with strong progressive metal influences.

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Anette Olzon

Anette Ingegerd Olsson (born 21 June 1971), known by the stage name Anette Olzon, is a Swedish singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish from 2007 to 2012.

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Angels Fall First

Angels Fall First is the debut studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

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Auri (band)

Auri is a Finnish band composed of vocalist and violist Johanna Kurkela, keyboardist and backing vocalist Tuomas Holopainen, and guitarist, keyboardist and pipe player Troy Donockley.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Century Child

Century Child is the fourth studio album by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released in 2002 through Spinefarm Records.

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Charon (band)

Charon was a Finnish gothic metal band from Raahe, Finland.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Conscription in Finland

Conscription in Finland is part of a general compulsion for national military service for all adult males (maanpuolustusvelvollisuus; totalförsvarsplikt) defined in the 127§ of the Constitution of Finland.

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Dark Passion Play

Dark Passion Play is the sixth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 26 September 2007 in Finland, 28 September in Europe and 2 October 2007 in the United States.

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Darkwoods My Betrothed

Darkwoods My Betrothed was a black metal band from Kitee, Finland.

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Decades: World Tour

Decades: World Tour (also referred to as Decades: World Tour 2018) is the seventh world tour by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, in support of their seventh compilation album, Decades.

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Don Rosa

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and other Disney characters.

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Dragonlance

Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of fantasy novels.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Elina Siirala

Elina Siirala (born October 27, 1983) is a Finnish soprano and vocal coach.

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Embraze

Embraze was a group from Kiiminki, Finland.

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Emppu Vuorinen

Erno Matti Juhani "Emppu" Vuorinen (born 24 June 1978) is a Finnish guitarist, most famous for being a founding member and occasional songwriter of the symphonic metal band Nightwish.

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End of an Era (album)

End of an Era is a DVD and double CD from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album)

Endless Forms Most Beautiful is the eighth album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish.

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Epica (band)

Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band, founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen after his departure from After Forever.

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Eternal Tears of Sorrow

Eternal Tears of Sorrow (commonly abbreviated to EToS) is a Finnish symphonic death metal band formed in Pudasjärvi in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland.

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Fallen (For My Pain album)

Fallen is the only full-length album by the Finnish gothic metal supergroup band For My Pain....

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Finnish Army

The Finnish Army (Finnish: Maavoimat, Swedish: Armén) is the land forces branch of the Finnish Defence Forces.

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For My Pain...

For My Pain... (often abbreviated “FMP...” or just “FMP”) was a gothic metal supergroup from Oulu, Finland, featuring members from Embraze, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Nightwish, Charon and Reflexion.

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Gothic metal

Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a fusion genre combining the heaviness of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses, often abbreviated as GNR, is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985.

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Hartwall Arena

Hartwall Arena (previously known until 19 March 2014 as Hartwall Areena, called Helsinki Areena, Helsingin Areena or Helsingforsarenan ('The Helsinki Arena') by the national broadcaster Yle) is a large multi-functional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Imaginaerum

Imaginaerum is the seventh studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

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Imaginaerum (film)

Imaginaerum (also promoted as Imaginaerum by Nightwish) is a 2012 Finnish-Canadian musical fantasy film co-written and directed by Stobe Harju.

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Indica (Finnish band)

Indica is a Finnish symphonic metal group with pop rock tendencies founded in 2001.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Johanna Kurkela

Johanna Kurkela (born 10 April 1985 in Lumijoki, Finland) is a Finnish singer.

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Jukka Nevalainen

Jukka Antero "Julius" Nevalainen (born 21 April 1978, Kitee, Finland) is the drummer in the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish and the Finnish progressive metal band Sethian.

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Kari Rueslåtten

Kari Rueslåtten (born 3 October 1973) is a Norwegian soprano singer, songwriter and keyboardist, who was well known for being the former lead singer and songwriter for the now disbanded Norwegian doom metal/experimental band, The 3rd and the Mortal from 1992 to 1994.

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Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music, currently published by Wasted Talent (the same company that owns electronic music publication Mixmag).

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Killing Romance

"Killing Romance" is a single by the Finnish gothic metal supergroup For My Pain....

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Kitee

Kitee (Kides) is a town and a municipality of Finland.

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Kylähullut

Kylähullut is a Finnish hardcore punk band consisting of Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom), Tonmi Lillman (ex-To/Die/For), and Vesku Jokinen (Klamydia).

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Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places)

Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) is the title of a live / compilation CD/DVD by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 11 March 2009.

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Marco Hietala

Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala (born 14 January 1966) is a Finnish heavy metal vocalist, bassist and songwriter.

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Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer (sometimes known as MetalHammer) is a monthly heavy metal music magazine, published in the United Kingdom by Future Plc and in several other countries by different publishers.

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Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency.

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Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge

Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge is the first solo album by Finnish songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, best known for his work in the symphonic metal band Nightwish.

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Music school

A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music.

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Nattvindens Gråt

Nattvindens Gråt (Nightwind's Cry) was a Finnish gothic doom metal band, mainly known for several of their members who have become famous in other bands: keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen and bassist Sami Vänskä both went on to Nightwish (for whom Holopainen is a co-founder and principle songwriter), whilst vocalist Tapio Wilska went on to join Finntroll.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Nemo (song)

"Nemo" is the tenth single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish and the first single from the album Once.

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Nightwish

Nightwish are a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland.

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Oceanborn

Oceanborn is the second studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released in December 1998 in Finland and in the Spring of 1999 worldwide.

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Once (Nightwish album)

Once is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 7 June 2004 by Spinefarm Records and Nuclear Blast.

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Orkidea

Tapio Hakanen, better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened to Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist.

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Over the Hills and Far Away (album)

Over the Hills and Far Away is the first EP by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released in 2001 through both Spinefarm Records and Drakkar Records.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Power metal

Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context.

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Progressive folk

Progressive folk was originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, but in the United Kingdom the term became attached to a musical subgenre.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Sander Gommans

Sander Gommans (born August 15, 1978) is a Dutch musician.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sethianism

The Sethians were one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd and 3rd century CE, along with Valentinianism.

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Simone Simons

Simone Johanna Maria Simons (born 17 January 1985) is a Dutch singer-songwriter.

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Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, Finland.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Supergroup (music)

A supergroup is a music group whose members have successful solo careers or are part of other groups or well known in other musical professions.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden.

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Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which combines the heavy drums and guitars of metal with different elements of orchestral classical music, such as symphonic instruments, choirs and sometimes a full orchestra.

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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Tarja Turunen

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish singer-songwriter.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Carpenter (Nightwish song)

The Carpenter is the first single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, the only from their debut album, Angels Fall First.

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The Matriarch (film)

The Matriarch (Finnish: Lieksa!) is a 2007 Finnish comedy-drama film written, directed and edited by Markku Pölönen and produced by the Pölönen-owned film production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Timo Rautiainen

Timo Aulis Rautiainen (born 25 January 1963, in Sulkava, Finland) is a Finnish heavy metal singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Tony Kakko

Toni Kristian "Tony" Kakko (born 16 May 1975) is a Finnish musician, composer and vocalist.

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Troy Donockley

Troy Donockley (born 30 May 1964) is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of Uilleann pipes.

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Tuska Open Air Metal Festival

Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, commonly shortened to Tuska (pain, agony), is a Finnish heavy metal festival taking place annually in Helsinki.

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.

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Visions of Atlantis

Visions of Atlantis is a metal band from Styria, Austria, founded in 2000.

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While Your Lips Are Still Red

"While Your Lips Are Still Red" is a 2007 song written by Tuomas Holopainen and Marco Hietala of the Finnish metal quintet Nightwish.

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Wish I Had an Angel

"Wish I Had An Angel" is the eleventh single for Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, the second from their fifth album Once.

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Wishmaster (album)

Wishmaster is the third studio album by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 8 May 2000 through Spinefarm Records in Finland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Holopainen

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